Honours (4th year) and MA
students registered in the Unit tended to have a number of
characteristics not common to candidates to other departments. These
were:

1. Their maturity. On
average, the majority of the class was over 28 years of age, and often
older, with a few young students coming directly through from 3rd year.

2. Very few students, if any, would have applied for other Honours courses.

3. Nearly all our
students were quite clear as to their future vocations and had made a
deliberate decision to return to university to meet the demands of those
vocations. These fell into three main categories :

a) popular organizational anti-apartheid and development work;

b) experienced teachers who then returned to their previous posts; while

A pattern began to emerge
in the early 1990s where previous CCMS Honours or Masters graduates now
returned for a year or two to register for a further degree (MA or Ph.D)
prior to again returning to their respective professions. This
indicates that the notion of lifelong learning means just that: it is
our graduates who will help CCMS to shape life-long learning programmes
as they enter and exit CCMS in the light of their professional career
needs.